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uraniaHello and welcome to my Northern Hesse Appreciation Post! :)
I mean to post some photos of where I'm from practically whenever I get homesick and that is actually more often than you'd think, seeing as I'm generally pretty happy in Berlin. But! I just don't like the landscape here. I mean, Brandenburg is pretty in its own right, but I just don't get too see much of it, since I'm stuck in the city most of the time. And the landscape here lacks hills.
I guess the kind of nature and landscape you grow up in, always holds a special place in your heart. (At least it does with me. I am such a fangirl for nature - especially of the Northern Hesse variant! :))
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kiviraat posted some pretty awesome photos a few days ago and I got all landscape-y, and she kept telling me it sounded pretty where I'm from and so, there you have it! :D
So, thing is, the photos are from about last summer (June/July) and this winter (February/March) as those were the last times I was home, and I took them either near Kassel (where I'm from) or near Baumbach (a small village 50 km south of Kassel where my mother is from). So, without further ado, let it begin...
This is the view down the street from the house where my mother grew up. She was born in the house furthest down the road. :) It's a proper, very normal village and it isn't very stylish and that I love! <3 Oh, and btw, the street has the coolest street name ever: Wolfsgärten (meaning "wolfs' gardens"!).
Leaving Baumbach and heading towards Oberellenbach (another village). Between them is this hill which is normally awesomely pretty, but not so much last winter, since a lot of the trees fell during the last strong autumn storms.
View of Baumbach.
Rotenburg in the distance! (And yes, this is the Rotenburg with the cannibal. :/ )
Oberellenbach.
And now some pictures I took on my mother's cousin's wedding last summer (that took place in Oberellenbach even though she's from Baumbach, too). I was bored and wandered into the fields a bit. :)
And now to somewhere nearer Kassel! <3 Went hiking in a pretty nearby forest (though there's a lot of forest near Kassel) and it was such nice weather and all around super fun! :) That was last summer, too.
Edge of the forest.
Way into the forest. <3
There were soooo many butterflies that day, it was crazy! Took about 30 photos of different butterflies alone. :D
Transformatorenhäuschen! PONS tells me it's "transformer installation" in English. :)
A village, but I have to admit I don't know what it's called. xD
Kassel's landmark, as you may or may not know, is the Herkules! :) From it you have an amazing view over the city, but I'm not gonna post it, but instead what the landscape on top of that hill (where the Herkules is) looks in winter. :)
Fog creeping over the woods around noon.
Fire protection pond! (Very useful that winter. :P)
BONUS! :D
A photo of the Löwenburg (Lion's Castle) below the Herkules.
And a creek which is super cool to hide along! Much better than my crappy photo suggests! :D It's a very... enchanted forest.
So, that's it! :) Not very grand there, probably, but it's still the kind of landscape and nature I love most in the world because it's home, no matter how beautiful and wonderful and breathtaking other places are. <3
I mean to post some photos of where I'm from practically whenever I get homesick and that is actually more often than you'd think, seeing as I'm generally pretty happy in Berlin. But! I just don't like the landscape here. I mean, Brandenburg is pretty in its own right, but I just don't get too see much of it, since I'm stuck in the city most of the time. And the landscape here lacks hills.
I guess the kind of nature and landscape you grow up in, always holds a special place in your heart. (At least it does with me. I am such a fangirl for nature - especially of the Northern Hesse variant! :))
Sooo, why am I posting this now?
kiviraat posted some pretty awesome photos a few days ago and I got all landscape-y, and she kept telling me it sounded pretty where I'm from and so, there you have it! :DSo, thing is, the photos are from about last summer (June/July) and this winter (February/March) as those were the last times I was home, and I took them either near Kassel (where I'm from) or near Baumbach (a small village 50 km south of Kassel where my mother is from). So, without further ado, let it begin...
This is the view down the street from the house where my mother grew up. She was born in the house furthest down the road. :) It's a proper, very normal village and it isn't very stylish and that I love! <3 Oh, and btw, the street has the coolest street name ever: Wolfsgärten (meaning "wolfs' gardens"!).
Leaving Baumbach and heading towards Oberellenbach (another village). Between them is this hill which is normally awesomely pretty, but not so much last winter, since a lot of the trees fell during the last strong autumn storms.
View of Baumbach.
Rotenburg in the distance! (And yes, this is the Rotenburg with the cannibal. :/ )
Oberellenbach.
And now some pictures I took on my mother's cousin's wedding last summer (that took place in Oberellenbach even though she's from Baumbach, too). I was bored and wandered into the fields a bit. :)
And now to somewhere nearer Kassel! <3 Went hiking in a pretty nearby forest (though there's a lot of forest near Kassel) and it was such nice weather and all around super fun! :) That was last summer, too.
Edge of the forest.
Way into the forest. <3
There were soooo many butterflies that day, it was crazy! Took about 30 photos of different butterflies alone. :D
Transformatorenhäuschen! PONS tells me it's "transformer installation" in English. :)
A village, but I have to admit I don't know what it's called. xD
Kassel's landmark, as you may or may not know, is the Herkules! :) From it you have an amazing view over the city, but I'm not gonna post it, but instead what the landscape on top of that hill (where the Herkules is) looks in winter. :)
Fog creeping over the woods around noon.
Fire protection pond! (Very useful that winter. :P)
BONUS! :D
A photo of the Löwenburg (Lion's Castle) below the Herkules.
And a creek which is super cool to hide along! Much better than my crappy photo suggests! :D It's a very... enchanted forest.
So, that's it! :) Not very grand there, probably, but it's still the kind of landscape and nature I love most in the world because it's home, no matter how beautiful and wonderful and breathtaking other places are. <3
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Date: 2011-06-25 09:16 am (UTC)Wirklich schöne Bilder. Manchmal sind es eben die scheinbar kleinen Dinge, die am glücklichsten machen.
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Date: 2011-06-25 12:30 pm (UTC)Danke sehr! Ja, das denke ich auch. Es ist einfach... Zuhause. <3
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Date: 2011-06-26 05:19 pm (UTC)Everything in the fog looks mysterious and awesome. It's actually quite similar to here, but I think our countryside is a bit "rockier". The colours are lovely though!
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Date: 2011-06-26 09:41 pm (UTC)I love fog! Thinking about it, I have never seen any fog in Berlin and that makes me incredibly sad. :/
I'd love to visit Scotland one day! :D Maybe after I'm back from Norway. <3
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Date: 2011-06-26 10:41 pm (UTC)How strange that there is no fog in Berlin. I would have thought that being located where it is, fog would be quite common. We don't really get a lot here. Sometimes the sea makes it very misty in the morning, but it disappears quickly. I have no idea how foggy it will be on Orkney! It's so far north *-*
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Date: 2011-06-26 11:01 pm (UTC)Well, I guess there has to be a lot of fog around Berlin and maybe just not right in the city where I live? Seeing Berlin etymologically means "swamp", it would be kind of weird if there's no fog around at all... xD
You going to Orkney just sounds so exciting! <3
Also, if there aren't massive amounts of fog in Tromsø, I will be severely disappointed! :P
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Date: 2011-06-27 12:33 am (UTC)I was sure I had read that Berlin was built on a swamp. I think that's why I'm surprised there is so little fog! I like fog - it's really creepy and cool to walk about in :3 I'm sure there will be fog in Tromsø ;) But even if there isn't, there will be Aurora's and snow!
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Date: 2011-06-27 05:44 pm (UTC)Found the cooles panorama site from Tromsø today, and there were pictures with lots of fog, so yay. :) Auroraaas! Already looking forward to it so much. If there won't be any... I don't even wanna think of that! I never saw any!
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:01 pm (UTC)Ich liebe solche Fotos ♥
Besonders gut gefällt mir das letzte. Das hat echt was total magisches *____*;
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Date: 2011-07-01 06:59 am (UTC)Hehe, magisch, in der Tat. Es ist eben die Heimat der Grimmschen Märchen. ;)
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Date: 2011-07-17 10:21 pm (UTC)Aber so Bächlein sind eh toll. Mein liebstes Motiv beim Fotografieren ♥
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